00:00And now, breaking news from Tamil Nadu, comparing Tamil Nadu with its neighboring state Kerala.
00:11The Tamil Nadu governor said the Dalit atrocities are higher in Tamil Nadu despite high literacy rate.
00:18Now, Governor Ravi said that he was pained to read frequent reports of members of the Dalit community
00:25being assaulted and even killed simply because of their caste identity.
00:31Let's listen to what he said.
00:35I read the story of some of our brothers and sisters being beaten up, assaulted and at times killed
00:50because they belong to certain community.
00:57They belong to community whom some people consider untouchable.
01:06This I have been raising from every platform.
01:11And I have made it clear I will continue raising it all the time.
01:14Because this is unacceptable.
01:19The Dalits are our brothers and sisters.
01:23We cannot discriminate them socially.
01:29And joining us live now is India Today's Pramod Madhav.
01:32Pramod, once again, I guess we will see the governor and the government at loggerheads
01:38because the governor says that the Dalit movement has been hijacked by political parties in Tamil Nadu.
01:45Actually, these are like really strong allegations by the governor
01:48where he actually compares the state of Kerala with the state of Tamil Nadu.
01:52Unfortunately, recently what happened is that like there was an instance where
01:55a group of children from Dalit community were not allowed to pass through a street
01:59that was kind of encroached by a caste Hindu group.
02:03So he is kind of mentioning that and the previous cases and he claims
02:06in the state of Tamil Nadu it has become completely frequent
02:08even after having high gross education rate.
02:13And this is where he claims that while saints and others were in Kerala
02:17in the state of Tamil Nadu, it was hijacked by political movements.
02:22Indirectly, he is blaming the Dravidian parties
02:24and definitely DMK is not going to take this lightly.
02:27Right. Thank you, Pramod, for all those details.
02:30So clearly, this might become a big issue as the governor of Tamil Nadu
02:36who has been quite critical of the Tamil Nadu government at many occasions
02:40has once again hit out at the government.
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